About Clean Zone Community Network

 We are Ekram Ali and Elissa Thompson from Clean Zone Community Network (CZCN).We began as a litter picking group meeting at 6.30 every Thursday at Vestry Hall, litter picking and environmental work outside Vestry Hall, Spital Hill and the surrounding areas.

We are a non-profit voluntary organisation and currently do not receive any funding. We would like to grow our community network and offer a service to the local people of Burngreave. We will offer advice and signposting for people having difficulty with housing and benefits, following the closure of Spital Hill Citizens Advice centre.

We will offer health advice around prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes, advice for preparing healthy and balanced meals, a women’s exercise and running group and offering DIY sessions and promoting women’s creative activities. We will continue our local environmental work and litter picking and encourage the local community to participate in this as we already have in recent weeks.

We are currently using a room in Abbeyfield House to run this group however we need to be based in Burgreave to directly access the people in this community. Burngreave is a beautiful and diverse area in Sheffield but it is also one of the most economically and health deprived.

Our groups will promote healthy eating, exercise, tailored to the needs of the local community that welcomes everyone living in the area. Once we are running and engaging with the local community our work will positively impact the health outcomes of people in the community but we must be based physically in the community to achieve this.